Fruit-picker.



No. 892,182. PATENTED JUNE 80, 1908. M. PBTZER.

FRUIT PIGKER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR..12. 190 8.

' E maemto z 2 97. OJi U wi i u uses 4 I vide an-inexpensive fruit picker that can be MARTIN PETZER, OF WILKINSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

FRUIT-PICKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Application filed March 12, 1908. Serial No. 420,668.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN PETZER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Wilkinsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Pickers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to t 1e accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to a fruit picker, and the primary ob'ect of my invention is, to provide simple an effective means for re moving fruit from the limbs or branches of a tree, without injuring the same or the fruit.

Another object of this invention is to proeasily manipulated to strip a branch or limb of fruit.

With the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the invenion is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be presently described and then specifically claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective ,view of my fruit picker, Fig, 2 is a lan of the same, Fig. 3 is a vertical sectiona view of a portion of the same, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of a modified form of basket structure. To put in invention into practice, I provide a circu ar plate 1 with an extension 2 that can be'riveted or otherwise secured, as at.3, to a handle or rod 4.. The plate 1 is provided with a plurality of circumferentially arranged standards or rods 5 having upper beveled ends 6. Woven in and out of the standards or rods 5 are reeds 7, providing a basket-like structure or receptacle for receiving fruit, this receptacle being approxi mately half the. depth or length of the standards 5.

By simply placing the basket-like structure or rece tacle beneath the fruit to be picked, as 'il ustrated in Fig. 1,"and pulling upon the rod or handle 4, the fruit can be easily stri ped from the branch, and is re ceived ant retained in the basket until the same is lowered and the fruit removed. The standards or rods 5 extendin above the reeds 7 permit of the branch ordimb being embraced or caught between two of the standards or rods, whereby the fruit can be easily strippedfrom the limb or branch-without injuring either. The beveled ends 6 of the standards 5 easily guide a limb into position to be strip ed of its fruit.

1 In Fig. 4 o the drawings, I have illustrated a slight modification of my invention wherein the standards or rods 5 are inclined inwardly so that the receptacle is somewhat tapering in form.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new, is:

A fruit picker com rising a plate, a handle carried thereby, a p urality of circumferentially arranged standards carried by said plate, and reeds woven in and out of said standards to provide a basket-like structure of a proximately half the length of said stan ards. I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN PETZER.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SRoLovrrz, A. J Truce. 

